Aelinsaar

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by Aelinsaar 10y ago
I'd be more interested in criticism of the content, rather than the format. There's aiming for serious, and then there's just posturing.
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by Aelinsaar 10y ago
...It's like they have no idea what "Evidence" actually means, or frankly what the hell Snowden actually did; it wasn't selling hacking tools on the black market!
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by Aelinsaar 10y ago
It's not really that the original relates to this blog post, as much as it's just one of the best essays written in the English language in a long time. (big IMO)
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by Aelinsaar 10y ago
The constant exchange between the west coast of the US and Japan is so regular!
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by Aelinsaar 10y ago
I would imagine it's the same thinking that puts multiplayer in every game, and just generally wants to keep a live connection to everything, always.
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by Aelinsaar 10y ago
Given the limited google search results, it would appear to be a very neo neologism.
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by Aelinsaar 10y ago
Nothing about the impending IoT seems planned, standardized, and remotely designed with the consumer's best interest in mind. That being said, consumers for their part seem almost eager to throw their money away for truly dubious impro
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by Aelinsaar 10y ago
Oh the folk cures are the best! The ancient Greek ones were literally and figuratively, batshit. IIRC To treat epilepsy it was recommend that you eat the heart of a black donkey beneath the light of the moon on some specific night. Foolproo
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by Aelinsaar 10y ago
Similar story here, from the POV of someone with moderate anxiety, and very mild depression (probably as a result of the anxiety). Medication made me feel less, which was preferable to anxiety, but CBT was a set of tools I've continued
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by Aelinsaar 10y ago
I think the immense amount of constant work is the biggest challenge. It may be that the use case for CBT is a lot narrower than current practice is selling it as. For mild to moderate anxiety though, it's pretty amazing if you stick w
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by Aelinsaar 10y ago
Oh god yes. My "Cannot unsee" file is overwhelmingly dermatological, or burns.
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by Aelinsaar 10y ago
On the other hand, who knows? Has there been a time when people where not generally trained from infancy to believe fallacy?
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by Aelinsaar 10y ago
Exactly, with the added insult of ad hoc justification.
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by Aelinsaar 10y ago
I understand that, and am pointing out some of the conditioning behind that.
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by Aelinsaar 10y ago
Maybe training people to develop an illusory sense of control isn't really a good thing?
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by Aelinsaar 10y ago
That's a good point, but it definitely relates to what I'm saying as well; you're just describing the benefit side of the cost:benefit analysis any criminal has to do. A lot of the cost in Japan, even for the pettiest of crim
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by Aelinsaar 10y ago
The social consequences of committing a crime are enormous in Japan, and very long-term (like, the rest of your live). It makes answering the "Have you ever been convicted of a felony" section in the US look like a happy joke. Tha
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by Aelinsaar 10y ago
I would strongly recommend that anyone who hasn't read the original essay, do so.
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by Aelinsaar 10y ago
I would suggest that you not google image search that, as I did. There are many modern results, and it's quite awful.
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by Aelinsaar 10y ago
Finally, a way to assess poverty from space, ironically increasing the distance between the observers and the observed by several literal orders of magnitude.
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by Aelinsaar 10y ago
Maybe it's just the incredibly amount of money to be made as an athlete, or from athletes? Many different people have a very real investment, and the rest have come to have a psychological investment and act as human shields.
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by Aelinsaar 10y ago
Just talk about food, or drink, or the weather; maybe you'll actually learn something about them instead of a common, pointless language that costs the taxpayers billions a year. Quite the subsidy so that some people can break the damn
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by Aelinsaar 10y ago
I'd humbly suggest that two mods worry about something more critical to the integrity of an online community than tone.
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by Aelinsaar 10y ago
People have tried, but I've always been "paranoid" about keeping my online and offline social lives separated; it was clear a long time ago that "living open" was absolutely insane.
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by Aelinsaar 10y ago
I would argue that the 2016 race has been characterized primarily, by trolling.
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by Aelinsaar 10y ago
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12285414 Meanwhile yolesaber's reply to me was... what? Inconsistency is annoying, especially in the dubious business of policing tone. Then again, I suppose it's the result of
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by Aelinsaar 10y ago
By the same token, the ability to silence it is far greater. When someone is ranting about the world ending outside of your business, you might have to call the cops. Online, you just hit "ignore".
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by Aelinsaar 10y ago
...Or how people learned to ignore online, what they long have been forced to ignore offline.
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by Aelinsaar 10y ago
Why? https://www.google.com/search?q=judges+drunk+on+bench&ie=utf... It's not an uncommon issue.
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by Aelinsaar 10y ago
Except that in cryptography there is always the accepted reality that given time, any lock is subject to being broken. Apparently no one informed this brain trust of that little fact, and how it might relate to their organisms.

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